International Review of the Red Cross (2021), 103 (916-917), 605–618. Counterterrorism, sanctions and war doi:10.1017/S1816383121000278 Stripping foreign fighters of their citizenship: International human rights and humanitarian law considerations Christophe Paulussen Dr Christophe Paulussen LL.M. M.Phil. is a senior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and coordinator of its research strand “Human Dignity and Human Security in International and European Law”, coordinator of the inter-faculty research platform “International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform” and research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague. Christophe is also editor-inchief of the journal Security and Human Rights, member of the Executive Board of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and member of the Board of Advisors to the Editorial Board of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law. Email: C.Paulussen@asser.nl. Abstract This article will briefly present a number of international human rights law considerations related to the topic of citizenship stripping of foreign fighters, that is: “individuals, driven mainly by ideology, religion and/or kinship, who leave their © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ICRC. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 605